 Irish Potato Famine  Rwandan Genocide  Cambodian Genocide  Bosnian Genocide  Darfur Genocide By: Erin Ebert, Carina Fess, Emma Yatteau, Johanna Gregory, and Olivia Baker

1845 Irish Potato Famine starts 1851 Irish Potato Famine ends 1975 Cambo dian Genoci de begins 1979 Cambodian Genocide terminates 1992 Bosian Genocide starts April 1994 Rwandan Genocide statrts July 1994 Rwandan Genocide concludes 1995 Bosian Genocide comes to an end present Darfurian Genocide begins

 Began in 1845 ended around 1851  Mass starvation in Ireland caused by potato disease  English middleman system and rack-renting made plots of land tiny and high in rent  Depended on the potato because of high output  Around 2 million emigrated, million dead  1847 (black ‘47) was the worst, better from there  Robert Peel from England tried helping but didn’t fix anything with his corn and workhouses  75% of people homeless, eating anything Some people don’t consider this a genocide. WAOI

Healthy versus diseased potato Peasants farming their land Drawing of starving people on the fields

 President Habyarimana: A Hutu, he wanted a transition government with the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF)  Decades of tension between Hutu and Tutsi  Tutsis were favored by Belgium  April President Habyarimana was assassinated  Genocide is encouraged by the government and propaganda  800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus killed  Lasted only 100 days  No help from outside countries The US didn’t help because of previous experiences in Africa. WAOI

Moderate Hutu, attacked for being a Tutsi sympathizer Victims lying dead in the street Rotting bodies left on the streets Paul Rusesabagina receiving a presidential medal

 The Cambodian Genocide was carried out by the Khmer Rouge in  In April, 1975 the Khmer Rouge the modern capital of Cambodia and forced all of the residents out of the cities and into the country sides to work  Goal- Cambodia becomes a Communist peasant farming society and a classless society  Slaughtered anyone perceived to be a threat to their goal, and ethnic minorities  Response- Vietnam sent in forces to over throw the Khmer Rouge in December ,400,000 people died. WAOI

Starving victims of the genocide Pol Pot Khmer Rouge soldier ordering merchants to leave town A child surrounded by dead victims

 The genocide lasted from  Six republics of Yugoslavia were formed  Each republic had different races/ ethnic groups  Josip Tito held tensions in check when he died chaos returned  Bosnia gained independence, causing fighting  Serbian soldiers attacked Bosnian capital  The Serbian’s goal was to ethnically cleanse Bosnia by ridding all Muslims  Muslims were starved, tortured, and raped There were 381 concentration camps, 100,000 killings, and 20,000 rapes WAOI

Bosnian Serb shooting Muslims Excavating dead bodies Josip Tito the leader of Yugoslavia Mourning the genocide victims

 Began in 2003  Tension between the Arabs and Darfuri Africans  Omar al-Bashir seized power and became leader of Sudan  Bashir wanted an all Arab Sudan, so he tried to wipe out Darfuri Africans  Started a campaign to kill or displace Darfuri Africans  Janjaweed are Arab militias used by the Sudanese government  Janjaweed turned conflicts violent  Janjaweed attacks were mass killings, rapes, whippings, cattle theft, and burning of villages  Janjaweed would mutilate African women and contaminate wells  Adult men slaughtered and girls were forced into sex slavery  ICC ordered arrest of Bashir in 2009 This is still happening today. WAOI

Skulls of victims Dead decaying body Omar al-bushir Janjaweed Skulls of the dead